TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12286, 8 April 1918, Page 6

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Tho educational inquiry undertaken by the National Efficiency Board will be resumed in Christchurch to-morrow by Mr J. A. Frostick, Efficiency Commissioner, who has just returned to the city after a week in Wellington. Air George Dickie, 119, Dean Street, St Albans, lias received advice that lus son, Fred A. Dickie, has been wounded in the chest. A later report states that his wound is not serious. Private Dickie, who is twenty-eight years of age, was educated at the Waltham school. He left New Zealand with the Twenty-eighth Reinforcements. Mr Richard .Mayfield and Mr Ernest I'arner (on final leave) were presented on Saturday morning with silver wristlet watches by the staff and employees of the Kaiapoi Clothing Factory. ' Air Bissett, tho manager, in making the presentations, referred to the many men who had gone from the faitorv to do their duty in the firing lino The recipients made suitable responses. A soldier who appeared before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., at tho Magistrate’s Court this morning to answer a charge of resisting the police, explained Ins conduct by stating that he was so drunk that ho thought ho urns fighting the Kaiser. “ Well, if you fight over in Franco ns well as you fought mo the other night,” said Sergeant Dwan, ‘‘yon will come back a' hero, with a D.S.O. or something like that.” At the Grosvonor Hotel on Saturday evening there were two presentations, on the- occasion of the departure of Airs L. Kennedy, who is relinquishing the proprietory in order to live privately in Dunedin. To Air John Stack, who has been actively associated in the management of tho business for some time past, Airs Kennedy personally presented a. purse of sovereigns ns a marie of appreciation of the valuable assistance ho had given. Those assembled then made gifts to Airs Kennedy of a pearl neckace and a travelling trunk ns tokens of the esteem in which she was held. Sir A. W. Robin has written to the officer in charge of the Salvation Army in the Dominion, expressing, on behalf of the New Zealand Military Forces, deep appreciation of the manner in which the Salvation Army war organisations have Avorked for the comfort and moral welfare of the troops since the commencement of the war. In concluding his letter, he says;-—“I have been advised by the general conv manding the Now Zealand troops ii, England of the magnificent work tluF has been done by tho Salvation Arm a in England and at tho front, and von will probably have seen among the news in the daily Press the eulogistic terms in Avhich General Richardson refers tr ‘ that noble band of Avorkors of the Salvation Army,i Avho have sacrificed so much in order to bring comfort to our sick and AA’ounded soldiers.’ ”